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HAIR Book & Lyrics by Gerome Ragni & James Rado | Music by Galt MacDermot | Produced for the Broadway stage by Michael Butler | Original Produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival Theatre

Episode Segments:

  • 2:25 - Speed Test
  • 4:09 - Why God Why
  • 8:04 - Back to Before
  • 25:26 - What's Inside
  • 42:47 - How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
  • 1:06:25 - Our Favorite Things
  • 1:14:56 - Corner of the Sky
  • 1:18:08 – What Comes Next?

Works Consulted & Reference :

  • Hair (Original Libretto) by Gerome Ragni & James Rado
  • Free For All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told by Kenneth Turan & Joseph Papp
  • Joe Papp: An American Life by Helen Epstein 
  • Hair: The Story of the Show That Defined A Generation by Eric Grode 
  • It Happened On Broadway: An Oral History of the Great White Way by Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer
  • “No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance”: A History of the American Musical Theater by Sheldon Patinkin
  • Musical! A Grand Tour by Denny Martin Flinn
  • B’WAY: The American Musical (2004 PBS Documentary)

Music Credits:

  • "Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear World Orchestra & Donald Pippin
  • "The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie  (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble
  • "Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording  (Original Cast Recording  / Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by Alistair Brammer
  • "Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie
  • "What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles | Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble
  • "Manchester England” from Hair (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Galt MacDermot & Lyrics by Gerome Ragni & James Rado | Performed by James Rado & Hair Ensemble
  • "Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Marni Nixon
  • "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews
  • "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Performed by Matthew James Thomas
  • “What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Performed by Jonathan Groff
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